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}} The Academy of Music, also known as American Academy of Music, is a concert hall and opera house located at 240 S. Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its location is between Locust and Manning Streets in the Avenue of the Arts area of Center City. The hall was built in 1855-57 and is the oldest opera house in the United States that is still used for its original purpose.〔Tom Di Nardo, "Happy birthday: Academy of Music to celebrate 150 lavish years." ''Philadelphia Daily News'' (January 24, 2007)〕 Known as the "Grand Old Lady of Locust Street," the venue is the home of the Pennsylvania Ballet and Opera Philadelphia. It was also home to the Philadelphia Orchestra from its inception in 1900 until 2001, when the orchestra moved to the new Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. The Philadelphia Orchestra still retains ownership of the Academy.〔Peter Dobrin, "A stalwart hall that does it all". ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', 26 January 2007.〕 The hall was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962.〔〔Charles E. Shedd, Jr., et al. (December 1979) (National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: American Academy of Music; Academy of Music ), National Park Service and (''Accompanying one photo, exterior, undated'' )〕 ==History== The Academy of Music held an inaugural ball on January 26, 1857. At the time ''The New York Times'' described the theater as "magnificently gorgeous, brilliantly lighted, solidly constructed, finely located, beautifully ornamented" but went on to lament "all that lacks is a few singers to render it 'the thing'." The theatre had its first opera production, and what was billed as its formal opening, a month later on February 25, 1857 with a performance by the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company of Verdi's ''Il trovatore'' starring Marietta Gazzaniga as Leonora, Alessandro Amodio as Count di Luna, Zoë Aldini as Azucena, Pasquale Brignoli as Manrico, and Max Maretzek conducting. Maretzek, who was already presenting operas at the Academy of Music in New York City and at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia since 1850, brought his company back annually to the Academy of Music in Philadelphia through 1873. Due to his association with both the Philadelphia and New York City Academy of Music venues, his company was sometimes referred to as the Academy of Music Opera Company. The Academy has been in continuous use since 1857, hosting many world-famous performers, conductors and composers, and a significant number of American premieres of works in the standard operatic and classical repertoire. Noted operas that had their American premieres there include Strauss's ''Ariadne auf Naxos'', Gounod's ''Faust'', and Wagner's ''The Flying Dutchman''. In 1916, Leopold Stokowski conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in the American premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony (the ''Symphony of a Thousand''). The list of renowned artists who have performed at the Academy reads like a "who's who" of the past century of performing arts history, with such greats as Marian Anderson, Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Aaron Copland, Vladimir Horowitz, Gustav Mahler, Anna Pavlova, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Leontyne Price, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Sutherland, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, among many others. After the Philadelphia Orchestra moved to the Kimmel Center, the 21st century brought more non-classical artists to the Academy, among them Noel Gallagher who appeared there in 2011. Outside of arts events, it hosted the 1872 Republican National Convention. In addition, parts of Martin Scorsese's 1993 film ''The Age of Innocence'' were filmed in the Academy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Academy of Music (Philadelphia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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